Events and Announcements
Thank you, MOSAIC!
A HUGE THANK YOU to Mosaic Company for its 2025 grant of $150,000 to be used over 3 years!
Gibbons' Updates
Starting a hike on Gibbons Nature Preserve on a lovely fall day.
Invasives are non-native plants that overcome native plant life which threatens the wildlife that depends on them. The potato vine (Solanum lax) is like that. The vines's heart shaped leaves can be very large and are effective at shading out light from everything it covers. It smothers trees. Two years ago TBC introduced the potato vine beetle to the Gibbons Preserve. The results are amazing.
This detailed colored pencil drawing is a portrait of an Alafia River Otter seeking shelter on our Gibbons Nature Preserve after Hurricane Milton. Really folks, he was there just a day or two after Milton tore through the area.
Shout Out to Our Supporters
Conservation Easement 2024/2025
On December 30, 2024, Laura Starkey donated a conservation easement on approximately 27 acres of the Heartwood Conservation Cemetery to the Conservancy. A conservation easement leaves the ownership in private hands, but with reduced or retired development rights. This acreage is now in preservation in perpetuity under the watchful eyes of the Conservancy. Thank you to Laura Starkey for this generous donation.
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A conservation cemetery uses natural burial as an environmentally friendly way to provide a simple, traditional burial. It promotes a greener world by keeping the land - and the burial - in its natural state.
Accredited
The Land Trust Alliance Accreditation Commission confirms the Tampa Bay Conservancy’s quality standards and commitment to professional excellence, lasting stewardship and earning the public's trust in our work.
Lands Protected
The TBC has worked on land protection throughout Tampa Bay, recently expanding north to Citrus County and east to Polk County.
Donate today
We invite you to make a donation to The Tampa Bay Conservancy, Inc. a non-profit land conservation organization dedicated to preserving the Bay Area's natural, agricultural and scenic heritage.
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We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
– Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac